I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.
So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.
Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?
*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.
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I’ve actually been fighting with this since yesterday.
Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I’m not self-hosting, and I’m trying to change that.
My list of requirements was:
- Multi-device sync
- Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.
For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I’m already running NextCloud.
I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.
Supposedly there’s a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn’t able to get it working at all.
PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I’m also running Authentik - but don’t try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.
What I’ve settled on for the moment:
- AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
- NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
- NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I’m not exactly happy with this, as it’s a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.
feedbin, I just use the web app on my phone/laptop
I’m self hosting audiobookshelf with tailscale. Also use home assistant with music assistant to play my podcasts on all my home speakers as well.
I’m using antennapod. It syncs to a selfhosted gpodder instance and some podcasts are hosted on my audiobookshelf. I like some exclusive podcasts from podimo but their player is shit. Selfhost a tool that creates rss feeds for those walled podimo podcasts and they get downloaded and served by audiobookshelf.
There seems to be a lot of fun checking out Podcast apps, but I couldn’t find a lot of these on iOS App Store sigh
I’m using AntennaPod but it’s annoying me that I can’t sort and autoplay oldest to newest. Unused to use pocketcasts but I’m keeping google play services outta my main profile in grapheneOS which means I cant use my pro licence for pocketcasts…
The queue can be sorted by date. If you hit date again it reverse the order.
Yes, however it wont auto-download oldest-newset, and more annoyingly it wont play next in that reversed order, it just stops the ep and I have to manually find and select the next ep in that podcast. I sorta don’t grok the AP workflow with queue and inbox - most of my podcasts are story/investigative journalism style and I want to just click on a podcast, press play to resume where I was at, and auto roll through the podcast in whatever order it should be.
APs workflow seems very much aimed at listen to a jumble of whatever’s been recently released’ so I feel like I’m fighting it to work like I expect
with shame I will say Spoty is my only subscription…
Podcast Addict.
My only gripe is that it only works on mobile, so I can’t have all my settings shared with my laptop. Otherwise, it’s nearly flawless and the premium is cheap as hell.
Yep, podcast addict premium user for several years now. Rock solid app, though I do wish it supported the full podcasting 2.0 feature set, all of the namespace, V4V, wallet integration, ect. But for now I just use fountain for my 2.0 shows and it works, it’s just annoying.
I like PodAura. It doesn’t have as many features as AntennaPod, including discovery, but it has the ones that are useful to me, and I like the layout.
I use Gonic, does exactly what I need. It’s in a docker container and hasn’t let me down in over a year.
To listen to Podcasts from it I use play:Sub on iOS
Hey! I’m the Developer of Pinepods. It really aims to be the ultimate podcast solution that’s as self-hosted as possible. I’m trying to make it as fleshed out feature wise as any paid or android specific podcast application while allowing for server sync and access everywhere on any device. Its getting better and better all the time! https://pinepods.online/
I’ve just found out how to setup audiobookshelf for podcasts and I’m a bit annoyed that I won’t be using antennapod anymore.
I have a slightly overcomplicated setup, but I use audiobookshelve to download all my podcasts for archival purposes and then antennapod on android to listen to them (the rss feeds generated by aufiobookshelve) which syncs everything to gpodder for nextcloud. I also occasionally listen to the pods via Kasts on my desktop, also synced with gpodder.
I specifically use audiobookshelve inbetween, since I have some paid podcast subscriptions and I don’t want to loose that content if I ever stop paying or they go under.
This is also kinda like my setup, nice!
I think you could probably skip antennapod and gpodder sync by using only audiobookshelf
I know, but the mobile client is lacking in features and I like antennapod (and gpodders client independence)
I have Podgrab setup, but I mostly just use PodcastAddict on my phone
I use Podfetch for gpodder sync with the previously mentioned AntennaPod. I had to wrestle it a bit with permissions, but I think it covers your use case of syncing listening history.
